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The distributional impact of public services when needs differ
Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep; Langørgen, Audun; … - 2010
, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269774
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Understanding rising income inequality in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010
experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272658
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262015
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Fighting poverty: Assessing the effect of guaranteed minimum income proposals in Québec
Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lacroix, Guy - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293180
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Misperceiving Inequality
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel - 2015
Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307312
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The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts and empirical results from different case studies are presented. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262018
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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262022
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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262053
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Demografie und Ungleichheit: der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2009
In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269298
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Job Satisfaction and Coworker Pay in Canadian Firms
Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179930